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S P 1 1933- N. J. GARFUNKEL ,9

SUPPORT Filed Feb. 3, 1933 INVENTOR A/ fi/m/ f GQEFUN/(EL Patented Sept.19, 1933 7 Nathan Garfunkel, New York, N. Y; Application February 3,1933. Serial No. 655,064

5 improved holder of simple, inexpensive and prac-'- tical constructionwhich may be used. for supporting displays of Various kinds and in whicha resilient member is placed under tension, by the mounting of a displayon the holder, so as .to

10 effectively retain said display in proper position.

The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the followingdescription when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing whichillustrates a preferred embodiment of the 15. inventive idea.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the holder constructed in accordancewith the invention and showing a display mounted thereon.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the holder with the display thereon, thedotted lines illustrating the position of the resilient'memberof theholder when not in use.

normal or inoperative position, and

Figure 4 is a front elevation.

The device of the present invention] may be.

utilized to support various types of articles such as might be used fordisplay purposes. As one example of the many forms which the display mayassume, there is shown in the drawing a display 5 which may consist of abase of glass or.

other material having an illustration mounted thereon. It is preferablethat the display itself or its mounting be made of a material havingsuch a degree of rigidity that it will not bend or flex when placed inposition on the holder which,

in accordance with the present invention, exerts a pressure on thedisplay at different points thereof that will be sufiicient to bend thesame if it were flexible.

The holder, as shown, is preferably made from a single piece ofmaterial, such as metal, formed to provide a base 6 which, because ofthe nature of the device, may be relatively narrow as compared with thewidth of the display. At a suitable point intermediate the ends of thebase, the same is provided with a transverse groove '7 extending thewidth thereof and adapted to receive the lower edge of the display 5when the latter is mounted in position, a wall of said groove thusforming a stop or abutment which will prevent shifting of the displaylongitudinally of the base. 1

Extending upwardly from the rear end of the base is a retaining member,generally'indicated Figure 3 is a side elevation of the holder in itsably holding said display onthe device. 7

i What is claimed is:

5 Claims. (cl. 40-146) at 8, preferably of the same width as the baseand taking the form of a resilient arm' having a compound curvaturewhich provides an elongated intermediate bowed portion 9. and an endbowed portion 10. These portions are adapted to exert .9; pressure uponopposite sides of the display, the

portion 9 engaging theback' thereof. approxn mately at its center andthe extremity of the portion 10 engaging the front face of the displayadjacent its top. In order to obtain this pressure, said portions are sodisposed relative to each otherthat when the arm 8 is in its normalposition, as shown in Figure 3, the central part of the portion 9intersects the plane extending between the groove 7 and the extremity ofthe por- .0.

tion l0. Due to this, the display is to be mounted between said portions9 and 10, the resilient arm must be flexed forwardly inorderj to insertthe display in the position of Figure 2; with the result thatsaid arm isplaced under tension and its bowed portions act to exert pressure upondifferent points of the display and in' opposite directions, therebysecurely but'remov 80.. 1. In a display holder, a base uponwhich an edgeof a display rests when in position on the holder, and a singleelongated resilient retaining member connected at one end tosaid baseand bent so that when differentportions thereof are engaged on oppositesides of a display mounted on said base, said retainingmemb'er will betensioned to exert pressure in'one direction upon the intermediateportion of said display-and in an opposite direction against'an' edgeportion ofjthe display. 7

2. In a display holder, a base upon which an edge of a display restswhen in position on the holder, and a single longitudinally'bowed re-.

taining member extending from said base and 951 having display engagingportions adapted for contact with a display on opposite sides thereof.

3. In a display holder, a base upon which an edge of a display restswhen in position on the holdena resilient retaining member extending 190from said-base and having opposed bowed portions engageable withopposite sides of said I display, one of said portionsconta'cting thedisplay at an intermediate point thereof and the other portionoverhanging the edge of the display opposite the first-named edge.

4. In a display holder, a base having means constituting a stop againstwhich an edge of a display is adapted to abut, and a resilient retainingmember extending from said base-and flexed from a normal position so'asto have a .two-point contact with opposite sides of the display disposedon said base, one of said contacts 7 being formed by a bowed portion ofsaid memformed by a compound curvature of said memberv 7 andconstituting two points of contact with said display on opposite sidesthereof when the latter is mounted in said groove and extended between,

said bowed portions, said member capable of being flexed from a normalposition, wherein the intermediate bowed portion intersects the planeextending between said groove andvthe point of contact ,formed by theend bowed portion, to its operativeposition in which the points ofcontact ofisaid Bowed portions engage saiddisplay and exert pressurethereon in opposite directions.

NATHAN J. GARFUNKELV

